cotton-picking
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Born in Oklahoma on “a little cotton-picking town between Tulsa and Muskogee,” Releford was raised on a farm by his parents, grandparents and uncle.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
Millions of people worked — for years in forced-labor campaigns — in the cotton-picking industry, which further sapped water resources.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024
The cotton-picking season was over in the San Joaquin Valley, but the truck wouldn’t go, the money was running out and this farmworker family was living on fish tacos.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2017
One invention, from Macon, Mississippi, was a cotton-picking machine.
From Scientific American • Jan. 7, 2013
In cotton-picking time the late afternoons revealed the harshness of Black Southern life, which in the early morning had been softened by nature’s blessing of grogginess, forgetfulness and the soft lamplight.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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